When my mind stop thinking, my eyes stop blinking

[deflatermouse]

I just got back after 4 days away and had to deal with the morass of email, feeds, todo items and Tweets that had built up in my absence and it occurred to me that the way I deal with these datum is very much like how various Garbage Collection schemes work:

In general I use a Ref Counting system similar to how Perl does GC - I mentally keep a tally

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Profanesacheaufwendigetechnischemetapher

[ext_222323]

There must be an awesome German makeword for overly elaborate technical metaphors for mundane things.

I'm guessing this isn't it.

[2shortplanks]

When my main inbox hits about 2000 items I tend to reboot the VM (aka "in:inbox" -> 'Archive'.) This has the advantage that an unknown number of things hit the floor, but the system becomes responsive again to new input very fast.